Tyria, Grothmar Valley, 1332 AE. Season of the Scion is entering its seventh decade. The Elder Dragon Kralkatorrik is dead, its branded minions scattered and slowly dying out. The Flame Legion is about to shake off its past and rejoin the other High Legions. In what feels almost like overnight, the charr are free of two major threats that were keeping their forces occupied for years.

To celebrate both of these occasions, Blood Legion imperator Bangar Ruinbringer invited any and all to Grothmar Valley. Imperators and tribunes, centurions and legionnaires, soldiers and gladia, charr and other races alike are to come to the home of the Bloods for an All-Legion Rally, to witness the rebirth of charr as one, unified force.

Some see it as an obvious political power play – a chance for Bangar to establish dominance over the other imperators and shift power in Blood’s favor. Others consider it a chance to mingle and celebrate, safe in the knowledge they can breathe just a little bit easier from now on.

And for certain charr, it is a time ripe with opportunity.

For all of them, life changes in less than a fortnight…

[This story is set shortly before and during the episode Prologue: Bound by Blood].

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Note, please, that this is an episodic project, but due to the nature of tumblr being… well, generally unsuited for such endeavors, I have no way to link the episodes together. I will tag any works related as “#Icebrood Saga: Frostbound”, but since there will also be related brief non-comic interludes, it may be difficult to get to these in the correct order. When in doubt, see page numbers, those do not reset with chapters.

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This comic is unofficial and not part of the game’s canon.

In case you have any doubts about it, I love Icebrood Saga. I don’t love it uncritically, I don’t consider it perfect, it was obviously cut short due to an abrupt shift of development in favor of the expansion, but even with all that said, it remains my favorite part of Tyria’s story.

This series is my loveletter to that story. It will be a long ride, so… strap in, cubs. The Blade Warband has a long way to go.